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Full Idea
There will perhaps be a world in which dogs will have sufficiently good noses to scent their game at a thousand leagues.
Gist of Idea
There may be a world where dogs smell their game at a thousand leagues
Source
Gottfried Leibniz (Letters to Coste [1707], 1707)
Book Ref
Leibniz,Gottfried: 'Leibniz Selections', ed/tr. Wiener,Philip P. [Scribners 1951], p.484
A Reaction
Wonderful. This should immediately replace Lewis's much repeated example of a world containing a talking donkey. We should always honour the first person to suggest an idea. That is one of the motivations for this collection of ideas.
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